Burbank

A used vinyl shop on the Magnolia antique stretch in Burbank, buying and selling records, CDs, DVDs and Blu-rays. The stock leans to classic jazz, sixties rock, punk and new wave, soul, blues, exotica and soundtracks, which is a narrower and more useful set of bins than a general shop. Open eleven to five, Tuesday through Sunday.

Tue to Sun, 11am to 5pm. Closed Mon

A family-run breakfast place in the Lakeside Shopping Center, open since March 2008 and run by Chef Bea. Seventeen versions of French toast on the menu and about twenty ways to have a waffle or a crepe. Gluten-free, lactose-free, vegan and vegetarian orders are all handled.

Daily 8am to 2:30pm.

The oldest Bob's Big Boy left standing, built in 1949 and designed by Wayne McAllister, with curving window walls, a cantilevered canopy and the tall sign out front. California has it on the register as a Point of Historical Interest. Car hop service runs on Saturday and Sunday nights and the lot fills with classic cars every Friday. It is open past midnight every night of the week.

Daily from 6am, to midnight Sunday to Thursday and to 3am Friday and Saturday. Classic car show Fridays 4pm to 10pm

A 1946 counter with twenty-five orange vinyl stools set around one horseshoe, mountain and beach murals on the walls and the original neon out front. John Isaac started the first one in Green Bay in 1913; his son opened this one, and when Green Bay closed in 2020 Burbank became the only branch left. It is the oldest restaurant still trading in the city.

Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 8pm. Closed Sunday and Monday.

The Burbank branch of the Cuban bakery the Porto family started in their Echo Park house in 1960 after leaving Havana. The potato balls and cheese rolls are the reason for the line, and the line moves, because there are a dozen people behind the counter and a numbered ticket system. Coffee, pastries and sandwiches as well. Cash-cheap and nothing here costs much.

Mon to Thu, 6:30am to 7pm. Fri and Sat, 6:30am to 8pm. Sun, 7am to 7pm

Open since 1959 and run by the same family, in a late-sixties interior nobody has renovated. Two hundred pounds of turkey go into the oven every morning, and the turkey dinner and the turkey sandwich are what people come for. Breakfast runs until 11:45am on weekdays and until 2pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Daily 8am to 2pm and 4pm to 9pm. Closed between two and four.

Red leather booths and tufted vinyl across the street from the Warner Bros lot, in a building that went up as the Red Coach Inn. The restaurant opened in 1946 at Pass and Riverside with forty-six seats and moved here in 1949. The interior has not been redone since.

Monday to Thursday 11:30am to 10:30pm. Friday and Saturday to 11pm. Sunday brunch 10am to 2pm and dinner 3:30pm to 9pm.